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No. 626,880. Patented Iune l3, I899.

. F. l. WALKER.

CARD ORNAMENT.

(Application filed Feb. 10, 1898.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK I. WALKER, OF YVALTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- A HALF TO EDWIN J. HAGBERG, OF SAME PLACE.

CARD ORNAMENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 626,880, dated une 13, 1899.

Application filed February 10, 1898. Serial No. 669,746. No model.)

The invention consists in the improvements which I will now proceed to describe and claim.

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a front View of a card ornament embodying my invention and a card inserted therein. Fig. 2 represents a view similar to Fig. l, the card being removed. Fig. 3 represents a rear .view of the construction shown in Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 represents a section on line 4 4 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 represents a view similar to Fig. 4, showing the cam-lever adjusted to secure the corner ornament to the card. Fig. 6 represents a front View showing another form of corner ornament embodying my invention and a portion of a card secured thereto. Fig. 7 represents a rear View of the device shown in Fig. 6. Fig. 8 represents a rear view, Fig. 9 a sectional view, and Fig. 10 an edge view, showing a slight modification from the construction shown in Figs. 2 and 3.

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

In the drawings, a represents a photographic card, and 1) represents an ornament formed as a socket adapted to receive a corner of said card, the socket having an angular bottom. (Indicated by dotted lines in Figs. 3 and 9.) Said bottom is formed to bear simultaneously on two edges of a card. The said socket comprises an ornamental front piece 2, which may be of any desired design and covers a portion of the outer surface of the card, and a back piece 3, which is separated from the front piece 2 by a space of suificient width to receive the thickness of the card and covers a portion of the back of the card. The back piece 3 is provided with suitable means for clamping the corner ornament to the card,said means, as here shown, comprising a tongue 4, which is preferably integral with the back piece 3 and formed by slotting the same, as shown clearly in Fig. 8. Said tongue is acted on by a cam-lever, which in Figs. 3, 4, and 5 comprises a cross-bar 5 and a handle portion 6, formed thereon, the central portion of the cross-bar bearing on the tongue 4, while its end portions are inserted b'ehind spring-arms 7 7, formed on the back piece 3..

When the handle portion 6 and cross-bar 5 are in the position shown in Figs. 3 and 4, the tongue 4 is loose and normally springs outward flush with the back piece 3; but when the handle portion 6 is raised, as shown in Fig. 5, the cross-bar 5 is caused to force the tongue 4 inwardly against the back of the card, thus pressing the card against the front piece and securing it firmly to' the corner ornament.

In the construction shown in Figs. 7, 8, 9, and 10 a cam 9, formed on a rod 10, which is journaled in bearings 12 on the back piece 3, bears on the tongue 4 and is turned inwardly, as shown in Fig. 9, or outwardly, as shown in Fig. 10, by means of'a handle portion 13.

When it'is intended that the device shall support as well as ornament the card, I provide it with one or more legs, which are preferably hinged. In Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 8 I show two legs 61 (Z, which are pivotally connected with ears (2 e on the back piece 3 and are arranged to support the corner'ornament in an inclined position, as shown in Figs. 4, 5, 9, and 10. In the construction shown in Figs. 6 and 7 the corner ornament has a single leg d, and in this case two of the corner ornaments will be required to support the card when applied to each of the two lower corners of the card.

It is obvious that one of the described ornaments may be applied to each corner of the card, the series of ornament-s having an effect somewhat resembling that of a continuous frame inclosing the card. The ornaments which are not intended to bearon the table need not to be provided with the supporting- IOO socket havinga front piece and a back piece, and having its back piece, slotted to form a the two being separated by a recess having an clamping-tongue, and a cam-lever pivoted to angular bottom formed to support two edges said back piece and adapted to press said of a card, means on the back piece for presstongue inwardly against the card.

5 ing the interposed portion of the card against In testimony whereof I have affixed my sig- 15 the front piece and thus clamping or grasping nature in presence of two Witnesses.

the card, and one or more supporting-legs FRANK I. WALKER. projecting outwardly from the back piece. Vitnesses:

2. A card corner ornament comprising a EDWIN J. I-IAGBERG,

1o socket formed to receive one corner of a card, BYRON B. JOHNSON. 

